The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
FLORIDA.

| The artcSian well at DeLand is down 23S
feet and work is progressing nicely.
Cook Lee, of Blanton, has just pocketed
| 81, 100 from crop of six acres of tomatoes.
A much larger area is being planted in
sweet potatoes at Blanton than in any pre-
vious year.
| Tampas Board of Trade has contracted
with Wanton S. Webb for 81 800 worth of
advertising on Floridas rolling exposition
! car.
At Winter Haven c. A. Joyce is having
| a new front built to his store and when
| finished and painted it will be an ornament
| to the town.
James Carroll of Ormond, reports light
orange crop this season in his section. Trees
are growing finely, and all field crops are
looking unusually well
A revival is going on at the Methodist
church at Miccosukie Several ministers
are in attendance from neighboring towns
and much good is expected to be done.
The steamers Everglade and Welaka, of
| the DeBary line, passed Paatka Tuesday en-
route TO DeBary creek, to tie up, as there is
not enough business TO keep them in service
John H. Squires who accidentally shot
his arm at Winter Haven is still in pre-
carious condition. The doctor is trying to
save the arm from amputation but even if
saved it will be useless.
Quite disturbance was created up in
Newburn Sunday night by negro woman
Just returning from church. She was filled
with religious enthusiasm and acted as
though full of whisky.
The engine and machinery for the arte-
sian well on DR.. Abemerthys place, oppo-
site the depot at Altoona, arrived Sunday,
and operations will begin at once. The well
will be at least 500 feet deep.
At Lloyd the recent rains have had a
wonderful effect on vegetation of all kinds.
Corn and cotton look promising, while
grapes, peaches and figs are coming into
market and are quite plentiful
The big bridge TO be built across the Hall
fax river at Ormond is soon to be begun.
The piling is being delivered and the laying
of the track from the Ormond depot to the
bridge will commence Wednesday.
The steamer Alice Howard has returned
to Cleveland from Tampa, and resumed her
regular trips between that place and Fort
Meyers. A new shaft and wheel were
among the repairs done to the steamer while
IN Tampa
The Gem City Guards, of Palatka, whose
commissions have been received, are differed
as follows: W. NJ. Husson, Captain; C. ].
Joseph, First Lieutenant; F. G. Cochrane,
Second Lieutenant The company is as
signed to the First Florida battalion, Mai.
Young, of Jacksonville, commanding.
A 4-year-old child of f. w. Bredow, of
Glenwood, was bitten by a rattlesnake last
Tuesday. Whisky was given to the child
Immediately, and as soon as possible
chicken was cut open and applied to the
part. The child is doing well and it is
thought no damage will result from the
bite.
There is an immediate prospect of the
formation of building and loan association
at Palatka. A number of members have
| already been assured and considerable stock
subscribed for. This will be one of the
topics for consideration by the Board of
Trade Wednesday evening, and all inter
ested parties are invited to attend.
A movement is on foot to procure the pas
| sage of law, providing that where the COM
pensation of fourth class post office from
| stamps cancelled, box rent, etc, does not
reach $3.50 per quarter (the limit of fourth
class Office, that the department shall on
| receipt of the quarterly report from said
office at once send the postmaster a draft
| for the difference.
| The railroads now running into Palatka
are the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West,
the Palatl1a and Indian River, with two
| branches, the st. Johns and Halifax, the
| Florida Southern (the pioneer road with
several branches, and the Palatka and ST.
| Augustine. In addition TO these, there are
| III,
which are known to be certain of building,
while the other two have run their prelimi-
nary surveys and are quite sure to make
| this city their terminus.
Ii has been proposed to the Treasury De-
| partment TO transfer sick sailors from their
present hospital in Jacksonville, Fla, to the
county poorhouse in that city. There is u
hospital fund, maintained by a tax on all
mariners, for keeping a hospital in each
| md
| hospital in Jacksonville is rented from pri-
waite parties and the county authorities, II is
| understood, want TO secure the rent thus
| paid, by having the sick mariners sent TO
the county poor house. The department
has not yet decided to make the change.
Monday was one of the most pleasant
days in the history Of Cedar Keys. All
business was suspended and the day given
up to enjoyment Excursonists from
Gainesville, Waldo and other points were
present in large numbers. The regatta was
the principal attraction of the day. The fol
lowing is the result of the race, showing the
winners i'll the three classes: First class
II miles, $50 and S25, Mischief, 2:lS:45;
Nellie, 2:24:4l. Second CLASS miles,
prizes $25 and SIS, Little Vixen, 1:4O :l6:
Buz, l:4l:44. Third CLASS miles, prizes
$l5 and 81 30, Willie S., 53:5S; The Judge,
54:31. The Mischief also captured the pen
nant offered by the ladies' of Cedar Keys.
Shipments of LeConte pears are now in
order from Lawtey MesSrs. Crawshaw &,
CO. have about 100 bushels, and others from
ten bushels upwards This is really the first
crop, as the trees are too young to bear
heavily vet. The Peen-to and Honey
peaches were very satisfactory paying crops
this year. A few "Gen. Lee peaches were
shipped. These peaches averaged very
large-many measuring from to l0t6
inches in circumference, but the color and
flavor was not up to the standard of excel.
lence of these peaches last year, caused 10y
over fertlizing This same cause Spoils the
flavor of both the Peen-to and Honey
peaches, besides injuring their shipping
qualities.
! Mr.. Lucky, formerlya citizen of Orlando
stopped "A few hours in Cleveland en- route
to his new home in the wilderness, about
twenty miles east of there While al
Cleveland he disposed of three or four deer
he had killed on his journey by wagon from
Ogden. Mr.. Lucky was one of the first set.
tiers in Orlando, built the first saw mill and
that fine hotel, the Charleston House. He
has made one fortune and lost il in Florida,
and now once more. undaunted and undis.
mayed, he pitches his tent in tho wild woods
out of the beaten track and hearing of the
locomotive whistle, and will now make his
/ second venture, with his past experience "a
guide and assist him in making his new
venture a success.